Since 1992, both the conversion rate and length of stay have declined at our hospital, but operative time has remained essentially the same. These findings probably reflect a bimodal learning curve, the increase in the number of cholangiograms and additional intraoperative procedures now performed, the greater severity of gallbladder disease currently treated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and increases in the number of attending physicians as well as the level of residents who perform this procedure.

expected that Pix Cresol should change in composition. It is probable that the analysis referred to the laboratory deals with a more recent specimen than the two examined in the Association laboratory. Editorial Note: In view of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry's findings,3 viz., that chinosol is a powerful anti¬ septic but a feeble germicide and considering that Pix Cresol colitains but 21 per cent, oxyquinolin sulphate, the absurdity of the following claims made for Pix Cresol require no further comment: "Pix Cresol is an Absolutely Sure and Yet Perfectly Safe, Never Failing Destroyer of Pus (Staph. Pyogcnes Aureus.)1' "It is germicidal, bactericidal, bacillicidal. It is certain as a microorganism destroyer. It destroys absolutely." "Ridding the blood of germs, it aids in rendering it replete with oxygen-." "It kills the germs." "No organism that is causative of morbid processes can with¬ stand it." "It destroys microorganisms of all kinds. It destroys them absolutely." "The germ's tenacity of life does not avail against its action as germicide." "It destroys the spores and toxins utterly."